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Constitutive Reasons and the Suspension of Judgement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2019

WHITNEY LILLY*
Affiliation:
Northwestern University

Abstract

This paper identifies a puzzle that emerges when recent work on the suspension of judgement is integrated with evidentialist solutions to the wrong kind of reasons problem: it looks like there is no such thing as a reason to suspend judgement. Two possible responses to this puzzle are considered: one recharacterizes the suspension of judgement as a mental action, and the other recharacterizes it as a second-order attitude. It is argued that these responses sidestep the puzzle only with unacceptable compromise to the view of suspension of judgement.

Cet article relève une impasse qui apparaît quand les travaux récents sur la suspension du jugement sont intégrés aux solutions évidentialistes au problème de la «mauvaise sorte de raison» : il semble qu’il n’existe aucune raison pour suspendre le jugement. Deux réponses possibles à cette impasse sont considérées ici : l’une redéfinit la suspension du jugement comme une action mentale, l’autre la redéfinit comme une attitude de second ordre. L’article fait valoir que ces réponses n’évitent l’impasse qu’en compromettant de manière inacceptable la notion de suspension du jugement.

Type
Canadian Philosophical Association 2018 Prize Winning Papers / Gagnants des prix de l’essai 2018 de l’Association canadienne de philosophie
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 2019 

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